Isao Tomita on Apocalypse Now, Moog and Vocaloid Hatsune Miku | Red Bull Music Academy

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The late composer Isao Tomita discussed discovering Moog synths, his influence on the sound of Apocalypse Now, Vocaloid Hatsune Miku, and more in his 2014 RBMA Tokyo Lecture.

TOPICS:
4:47 – Discovering Moog synthesizers
15:44 – Snowflakes Are Dancing and Debussy’s influence
16:01 – Bach
33:27 – Hatsune Miku
46:51 – Francis Ford Coppola and Apocalypse Now
52:34 – The Planets

MUSIC:
13:41 – Isao Tomita – Music from “Snowflakes are Dancing” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-b6mU3SYQ
27:52 – Isao Tomita – Unknown, for collaboration with Yoichiro Kawaguchi
33:59 – Hatsune Miku – ”Night on the Galactic Railroad” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1cnHfSCc4
48:23 – Isao Tomita – “Mars, The Bringer of War” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsZqXdPZb8s
1:13:22 – Isao Tomita – “Arabesque No. 1” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igHOaMOzzUo
1:29:24 – Isao Tomita – “Snowflakes are Dancing“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9QNKINVJvw

In electronic music, it’s hard to exaggerate the importance of Isao Tomita’s work. Born in Japan in the 1930s, Tomita imagined other worlds – seemingly outside his own, human reach – and so used his music to explore the unknown. In the ’60s, he pioneered the use of the Moog synthesizer to not just create note-for-note facsimiles of “real” music, but to re-figure electronic compositions as soundscapes; creating daring new sounds that would become highly influential for science fiction cinema soundtracks, modern synth pop, and much more.

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